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GEORGE WV. MALLORY,

OF GUILDS, CANADA.

GATE- LATC H SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 510,181,dated December 5, 1893.

Application t at September 19, 1893. stain No. 485,775. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. MALLORY, a subject of the Queen of GreatBritain, residing at Guilds, in the county of Kent, Province of Ontario,Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gate-Latches, of which the following is a specification, reference being hadtherein to the accompanying drawings.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction of a gate latchdesigned to latchthe gate when closed from either side and at the sametime to permit of opening it on either side.

The invention further consists in the peculiar construction ofthe partswhereby the device is simplified and its cost cheapened, all as morefully hereinafter described.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved latch.Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same detached. Fig.3 is a rearperspective view of the plate.

A is the securing and supporting plate for the latch and this plate isprovided on its rear face with a semi-cylindrical bearing B at each endand centrally with the semi-cylindrical spring socket C. At each side ofthis central socket and beside the bearing B are the lugs D castintegral with the plate and of such material that they can be bent overthe shaft E of the latch to hold the same against accidentaldisplacement. This shaft fits in the bearings B and is providedcentrally with a pin F to which one end of the spring G'is secured; theother end of this spring is formed with the arm H entering a socket I inthe plate as plainly shown in Fig. 2. At each end the plate is providedwith the lips J,'which serve as stops for the horizontal locking arms Kof the 1atch,these arms being integral with the shaft E and extendingforward of the :plate from said shaft, as shown in Fig. 1.

The arms at their outer ends are provided with the rearwardlyandupwardly curved actuatin g wings L, the parts thus constructed beingattached to a gate post in the path of the.

arms K, the tension of the spring will throw the latch down to theposition shown in Fig. 1, in whichposition the opposite side of the gatepost will strike the arm K and hold it closed. To open it theoperator'simply raises the outer end of the wing L and pushes the gatepast the latch.

It is evident that the latch may be operated from either side and that agate closed from either side will raise the latch and be locked in themanner set forth.

What I claim as my invention is In a gate latch the combination of theplate A having the bearing B and the central spring socket O and lugs Dbeside the bearing, of the shaft E over which said lugs are turned, thespring G secured at one end to the shaft and at theptherend engaging theplate and the arms K, and wings L having the inclined bearings L, theparts arranged and operated substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE W. MALLORY.

Witnesses:

M. B. ODOGHERTY, OTTO F. BARTHELJ

